Poetry
Poems: So Soon and Footprints of the Fallen
So Soon So soon so soon Just yesterday was June, Children and teachers dying, People shopping, people praying People lying on floors, on streets in places Where their bodies, where their blood, Shouldn’t be lying Sometimes only days apart again we’re asking why So soon, barely now July, Again people had gathered to…
Read MorePoem The Move
The Move Slowly Watch it disappear,Stuff, remnant memoriesOf all the years,Piece by piece,Emptied of treasuresThought to hold love,Finding that’s not what Love is made of.Still,Letting go is Difficult but true,It’s what the Phoenix Must achingly go through,Crucible of heattime and time again,Never knowing precisely whereOr unexpectedly when,Submitting to the inferno’sIntensity of fire,To shed an old…
Read MoreTwo Poems – Symphony of Trees & Before They Go
The Symphony of Trees Wish that I were privy to see Underneath my feet, the symphony of trees I pause, listen, even hold my breath Feeling pulse, rhythm, life stronger even with death A grove, a gathering group like family talk through their roots, A community of speaking leaves, a chattering choir in cahoots Causing…
Read MoreUp In Smoke
UP IN SMOKE It was a couple of days after Valentine’s day, two weeks after the two-year anniversary. Elise reread a poem in her journal that she wrote a few weeks ago. She remembered that night. It was one of those nights she fell asleep early and woke at one-thirty in the morning, with an…
Read MorePoetry Collection One 2019
MY HEART HAS GROWN Her soul forever with me, I feel her in my heart Physically no longer present, love and spirit never apart She sees and hears and knows, what I think and what I feel, Sometimes I recognize the signs, sometimes not sure they’re real Her soul now lives as part…
Read MorePoem, Lost My Flow Let It Go
Lost My Flow, Let It Go when your stomach is all bloating cause the food you ate is still floating around inside for too long and your hope turns to desperation as your brow drips become overall perspiration and your intestine’s singing songs you remember you took three cups worth of powder that’s supposed…
Read MoreAnesthesia
Anesthesia A song comes to mind Bye bye love, hello loneliness, I think I am going to die, bye bye my love goodbye… And so when I wake up from surgery, when it’s all over There is this crazy, subtle at first, but lingering high That seems to last along with the drugs in my…
Read MoreA Selection of Recent and a Few Not Recent Poems
I realize I want to create another post with humorous poems. I don’t think these are the kind that make you laugh, but hopefully they make you feel something. The Em in December your hair is sun shining your dance floats on a note sailing through space a dream all afloat your smile warms my…
Read MoreSome Things about December, Emilee, Mom, Our Wedding
Haiku for Blue All I can hear is, the rhythm of your voices, breathing me to peace … nmk My Em in December (my multipurpose anniversary and valentines day poem), guaranteed to get you what you need, but not necessarily what you want, for sale now, 30% off until midnight tonight, of course with…
Read MorePoem – Love, Loss, Carry On
Love, Loss, Carry On flighting bites silly sounds do delight frightful flights someone please dim the lights bug splattered windshield and too much glare straining to see what was really there distorted synaptic configurations convoluted emotions swirl I saw her as a young girl Tortured, pulled, torn, abused a rag doll stretched on a…
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